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In 1870, the Nebraska Legislature created the Nebraska Asylum for the Insane in the capital city of Lincoln. [1] The state's increasing population led to overcrowding at the Lincoln hospital; [2] in 1885, the Legislature appropriated $75,000 to build a second facility in the Norfolk area, subject to the city's donating 320 acres (130 ha) of good land. [3]
The Devaney Center opened in 1976 with a capacity of 13,595, replacing the Nebraska Coliseum as the primary home venue for Nebraska's men's and women's basketball programs. . Initially called the NU Sports Complex, it was later named for College Football Hall of Fame head coach Bob Devaney, who led Nebraska's football program to two national championships and served as athletic director for ...
The Norfolk Daily News is a daily newspaper located in Norfolk, Nebraska. It was founded in 1877 and purchased by the Huse family is 1888, and Huse Publishing has maintained ownership of the paper since. [2] In addition to expanding the circulation of the Norfolk Daily News, started the Huse family has started three radio stations in the area. [3]
The Nebraska legislature created the Insane Asylum in Norfolk in 1885; [11] it accepted its first patients in 1888. [4]: 84 In 1920, the institution's name was changed to the Norfolk State Hospital; in 1962, it became the Norfolk Regional Center. [11] As of 2010, it was a 120-bed institution providing the initial phase of treatment to sex ...
It is licensed to Norfolk, Nebraska, and covers parts of Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota. It was founded in 1922 by the Huse Publishing Company, publisher of the Norfolk Daily News, and since 1956 to a subsidiary, WJAG, Inc. [2] The studios are at 525 Norfolk Avenue in the newspaper headquarters. WJAG is a daytimer station, powered at 1,000 watts.
The Karl Stefan Memorial Airport Administration Building at the Norfolk Regional Airport in Norfolk in Madison County, Nebraska was built in 1946. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1] It was designed by Norfolk architect Elbert B. Watson (1879-1963) in Moderne style.
Order 98-5-19 (May 12, 1998): prohibits Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., d/b/a United Express, from suspending service at Fairmont, Minnesota, Norfolk, Nebraska, and Yankton, South Dakota, at the end of its 90-day notice period, and requires it to maintain service through July 24, 1998; requests proposals from interested carriers to provide ...
He ran and won to represent Nebraska's 3rd district in 1935 and was reelected eight times. He died of acute cardiovascular collapse while in office on October 2, 1951, in Washington, D.C. [1] He was buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Norfolk. Norfolk's Karl Stefan Memorial Airport is named in his honor.